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Our Best to You Each Week Since 1864Wed, 29 Jul 2015 21:41:59 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3God… In Everythinghttp://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/07/26/god-in-everything/
http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/07/26/god-in-everything/#commentsSun, 26 Jul 2015 13:03:36 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=63279When I say, “God is in it all” or “God is in everything,” please don’t take me to be a pantheist. I do not think everything is God. However, I do believe God is in everything. I picture our world as a huge sponge filled with the presence of God. Nevertheless, that conviction can be

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http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/07/19/sensitivity/#commentsSun, 19 Jul 2015 14:16:26 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=63189Seventy plus years ago, Dr. Ruth Westheimer was a ten year old girl on a Kindertransport, a train that carried Jewish children to safety from Nazi Germany. She was allowed to take only one toy with her as she fled Frankfurt. She took a favorite doll. On the train she met a younger child, who

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http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/07/12/instruments-of-destruction/#commentsSun, 12 Jul 2015 14:38:28 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=63090He was my great, great nephew, my niece’s grandson. Sadly, he is gone at 19. He proved, unfortunately, what most of us know – guns are to children (especially boys) what flowers are to bees. They will get together.

The weapon was “put away,” locked in a safe at home. The key was hidden in

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http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/07/05/family/#commentsSun, 05 Jul 2015 14:08:06 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=63017It was my birthday, a big one. My wife decided I needed a birthday party. Perhaps she assumed I would not be available for many more. Lovingly, she set the wheels in motion. At first, she planned it to be a surprise; but we have difficulty keeping secrets from each other, and soon the “cat

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http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/06/28/independence-day-2015/#commentsSun, 28 Jun 2015 13:40:47 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=62931In a few days, we will again celebrate the birthday of our nation. The United States of America will be 239 years old. As you might expect, our great country has experienced many ups and downs. As soon as we solve one problem, another one rises. That’s life. It happens to nations and individuals alike.

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http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/06/14/our-father/#commentsSun, 14 Jun 2015 13:59:41 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=62692Orey Steinman was just “messing around” with his computer when he typed his unusual name into an internet search engine. What he learned was shocking. He saw a childhood picture of himself on a website for missing children. The 17 year old learned that his mother had taken him from Canada 14 years ago in

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http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/06/07/the-convenience-of-unbelief/#commentsSun, 07 Jun 2015 14:41:44 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=62642Stories abound about confrontations between Christians and unbelievers. The most common setting for these accounts is the university campus. Usually, an atheist professor is presented as taunting young believers in class. That scenario of young learners and authoritarian instructors conjures up deep emotions among the saints.

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http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/05/17/is-the-grass-greener/#commentsSun, 17 May 2015 12:00:41 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=62317Originally, the proverb said, “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” The observation likely stems from watching cattle stretch across the fence to nibble a blade of grass while standing in a lush green pasture. Today, the axiom is often shortened simply to, “The grass is always greener…” and can

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http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/05/10/the-sky-is-not-falling/#commentsSun, 10 May 2015 13:41:13 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=62207The most recent Reader’s Digest contains a report of a study done by Steven Pinker and Andrew Mack on slate.com. According to their conclusions based on analysis of current available data, the sky is not falling or to use their words, “The world is not falling apart.”

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http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/2015/04/26/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-church/#commentsSun, 26 Apr 2015 13:07:53 +0000http://gallatinnorthmissourian.com/?p=62000by Dr. H. Wade Paris

The Associated Press recently reported a story about a swingers club converting into a church. A group in downtown Nashville, reportedly a swingers group, known as the Social Club sold its building and purchased a new one several miles away. In some ways, the new location is suitable; it is